One more cool thing: Kate LeDonne sent me a copy of her new book: Nothing in Particular as thanks for a mention on the ‘ole livejournal. I haven’t even cracked the spine yet, but this makes it triply true: Go buy the book!
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redmed and I are going to be in Michigan this weekend. The first part will be a wedding in the Western part of the state. We’ll probably get to Ann Arbor in time for a pre-scheduled dinner on Sunday night. On Monday, I will be under my own power for most of the day, and . . . → Read More: MI this weekend I went back to the grape juice merchants and got 6 gallons of Pinot Grigio. For this one I’m changing the plan a little bit. I added 5 crushed “Campden” tablets to stabilize the juice (kill off the native flora). Once that’s settled for a day, I’ll add a culture of the wine yeast of . . . → Read More: More wine! FYI: I got home around 2 this morning. I actually made the flight I was supposed to be on, though it involved a flat out sprint from the end of the ‘E’ concourse to the end of the ‘C’ concourse in Charlotte. I’m stuck in an airport in Newport News, VA. My connection was cancelled. I’m headed to Charlotte, NC, in the feeble hope that the new connection will not also be cancelled. My goal is to get to Boston, so I can drive for an hour to get home. All the people I know in Boston . . . → Read More: Stuck Why is it that every single time I receive a rental car, the stereo EQ is set to “max bass, max treble?” This setting sucks. There are two possibilities: * The people who clean the cars like it that way * There is an individual who travels around just in front of me, screwing up . . . → Read More: Rental cars What a day for the fermentables. Brewed a batch of the Dark Cherry Stout and got it into primary. Also, messed with the wine. I got a packet of wine yeast (Montrachet, thanks for asking), pre-soaked it in a quarter cup of water, opened up the bucket, dumped the juice from the original bucket into . . . → Read More: Homebrew on tap Sitting in Hahvahd squah, while redmed has her job interview. Go, redmed! Good times last night with technolope and capital_l. The only down side is that my abs still hurt when I laugh, so an evening of laughing and laughing was sort of painful. We ate cheap chinese and discussed (among other things) the megaton . . . → Read More: News of the weird |
